Michael Osterholm, currently the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, is one of the world’s leading experts on public health and biosecurity, has been widely quoted identifying the three phases of epidemic control.

This week as the G-20 and the IMF/World Bank meet in Washington, D.C., the BRICS will be meeting on the sidelines to discuss further implementation of the BRICS New Development Bank, recently created in July at the BRICS summit in Brazil. This week is thus a tale of two systems in one city.

In the Spirit of Mahatma Gandhi, Join Narendra Modi's "Mass Movement for Development"

During his speech at Madison Square Garden in New York, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, channels the spirit of the great Indian leader and freedom fighter, Mahatma Gandhi. Modi proclaims: "Mahatma Gandhi made the freedom struggle a mass movement. Let's make development a mass movement." He continues: "On 2019, India will celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi. He gave us freedom.

Leaflet: LaRouche: Impeach this President Now: Don't Try to Control an Uncontrolable War

In its development since the mid-July “Fortaleza” summits of the BRICS and supporting nations, the new policy of peace through development for all nations has changed the potential of the whole international situation.

Already before his scheduled 9 PM address to the nation, President Obama made clear that he has no intention of seeking Congressional authorization for his war plan against the Islamic State—despite the fact that Administration officials have said that the war will last for years.